- Well, hello, sweet loves.
I am back with another contemporary dance routine
for you guys to learn.
So, this is gonna be a little bit of choreography
for you to dance to today.
To a sweet little song,
which is always in the video description
people who are like, "what's the music?"
It's in there you guys just scroll. Okay?
You guys today I'm wearing my favorite Apolla shocks.
The style that I love oh, so much is the AMP.
That's A-M-P, these are supposed to mimic a jazz shoe.
So jazz shoes in my humble opinion are kind of outdated
and they're clunky,
but these have traction on the toes and the heel.
That way you can be gripped and supported.
They give a nice little compression on the feet
to make sure your little toes don't get too tired.
And I love them for contemporary specifically
because they keep me grounded.
They come in different colors in there anatomically correct.
So it tells you which one goes on your left foot
and which one goes onto your right.
It's pretty freaking cool.
So watch me dance and then view this video,
if you wanna snag your own pair,
go down to the video description again.
Apparently there's a lot of goodies
in the video description, see ya.
All right dancers you're gonna start with your feet
about hip width apart.
You're gonna roll your shoulders
and they're gonna come forward into fists.
So it looks like this.
Now, once you do that, you're already in a lunge
with your right foot forward.
Now, as you saw my foot and my little shock,
flip 'em on the floor.
So six, seven, eight I go roll lunge.
Now from there, I'm gonna step back,
left, right, left. That third step
crossed over my right foot.
My arm is going back, back, forward, forward.
Arm, as in both arms, (mumbles).
So we're here, we're in a lunge.
We have our hands in fist.
We stepped back left, right, left.
When I cross over my left foot,
I release my shoulders a little bit forward
and I look to the left.
From there dancers I do a right chaine.
So I step up, I step on my right foot
and I slightly reach my left leg high.
It's not a full-out air busk, super highlight extension,
unless you want it to be.
It's just kind of this a theory of loading moment.
Let's rewind to the beginning.
So hit with a part, five, six, seven, eight.
We go roll, lunge, walk it back, look left.
Chaine right, step big step.
Now you'll notice that my right leg is straight.
My left leg is straight and my right arm, there you are.
From there my left, I tuck my left knee down
and then I sit on my heel.
I roll, face what would be the back of your space,
I bring my knees together,
I sit onto my left butt cheek, extend my right leg out.
And sweep my right arm across my body,
with your toes pointed in the back.
And then I (indistinct) and I bring both of these together.
I shoot them in front of my body and I sit up tall.
The answers when I'm in that position,
let me show you from the side I have super pointed toes,
straight engaged, and pulling up my knee caps
so that my quads are engaged
and it's not them leading position.
And I have straight or I have a straight spine lifted.
Let's rewind and and just to the forward part.
So let him come up with me.
Pretend you did your chanae already.
You do a step back like tux.
I ran both legs together.
I rolled to face the back.
I go up and over my knees onto my left butt cheek,
extend right leg, right arm, knees together,
swing to a pattern.
All right, first up dancers here we go (indistinct).
(upbeat music)
okay dancers from this type position,
you're gonna take your hands to have flex pump.
You're gonna push over that pipe position
and come up tall.
So if I were to face the camera,
it would look like this.
I have pointed, my pants almost fell off.
I have my toes pointed
I'm sitting up totally to flex and push.
And then I come up, okay?
So once you do that, push over and you come up,
you're gonna bend both knees into kiss,
and then straight into the right runs diagonal.
Sitting up tall, you're gonna put your hands behind you,
push up and over your arches.
Drop your knees down, head back, palms down,
tuck your toes, roll up,
to have your head be the very last thing
that reaches the top, okay?
Please check that pants.
Okay, sorry.
All right guys so, we're on the floor, we have our pike.
We do black paws pushover bringing both knees together.
Push them out to the diagonal.
Now have made many many tutorial for this
is that having palms down,
you need to figure out what's comfy for you.
I think I have my hands forward,
but then I kind of shift them back as I go through.
I go forward up and over my arches you need in this moment
is life and death right here.
You need to hit drop your head back
and let the knees drop forward,
or else you're gonna get stuck in that position, okay?
I tuck my toes on a very high arch, put my palms down,
glue my heels down,
and then I roll up one vertebra at a time,
having my head be the very last thing
that reaches the surface.
From there, so we're standing.
You are going to thrush your right leg
with your left arm forward,
thrush left leg with your right arm forward,
facing the front that looks like this.
You thrush and bend thrush and bend it.
And it's the opposite arm forward,
as the leg that's lifting, okay?
So we're facing a downstage right diagonal we go thrush,
together, together.
From there, I shift to face the back of my space.
I'm stepping into a pitch, okay?
So I step on my right foot.
I'm lifting my left leg up.
Left, step left.
I turn over my right shoulder
to drop into one PA head down.
That's the very end of it, okay?
So we're kind of learning
some technique there we go further,
together, bottom, together face the back of your room.
Straight right leg, steps,
arms open to a supportive second position.
Left leg comes up straight.
I'm sorry, it comes up bent over your right shoulder
to drop them to a bronze PA and we finish.
Here we go, deep breath.
(upbeat music)
We got (indistinct).
You guys I just wanna say that
all of these contemporary pieces
or the theoretical ones or the jazz ones,
they are set to music that you can practice with.
They always put them in the video descriptions,
but they're also meant for you to just
take this choreography, make it your own,
place it to music that you love, love, love.
So think of them as kind of these like little nuggets
of choreography that you can take
and make into your own project,
or you can put to a different song,
make it a different style.
It's totally there for your use.
So just keep that in mind.
I am here to provide some inspiration and some movement
for you to go on with your own creative self, okay?
You guys just a reminder.
If you wanna snag your own pair of Apolla shocks,
go to the video description.
I have all of the information in there.
You will not regret it these things are magic.
I love you guys so much happy dancing
and I'll see you very soon.
(upbeat music)